From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 25 17:51:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops-e0.cogent.net (cyclops-e0.cogent.net [204.250.78.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20693 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tps.elt@mars.planetary.org) Received: from default (pool036-max8.ds22-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.23.86]) by cyclops-e0.cogent.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA11980 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Evan Thomas" To: Subject: Question Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:42:47 -0700 Message-ID: <01bdb82e$4f393ec0$5617b3d1@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have been trying to configure PPP. I got it to connect to my ISP (Earthlink), but ftp, telnet, ping, etc , all give me the message "unknown host" with everything but localhost. my netstat -rn gives: dest Gateway flags Refs Use Netif Expire 127.0.0.1 127.0.01 UH o 16 lo0 I am on a stand-alone computer which receives a dynamic IP address from Earthlink when connecting with my modem. I think my problem is with the way I have hosts, rc.conf, etc setup. Can somebody please help - I am also at my wits end here. Thank you in advance. Any help, suggestions are much appreciated. Evan Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message